How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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